WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service is under fire for giving extra scrutiny to conservative organizations that asked for tax-exempt status. But the scandal begs a broader question: Why are political organizations getting this government ...

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans voted for the 37th time Thursday evening to repeal all or part of President Barack Obama's health care law, underscoring once again the deep partisan divide over the landmark 2010 legislation.

The bill to roll back...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama Thursday ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria even if there is proof that Syrian forces used lethal chemical weapons in the nation's civil war.

"This is ... an international problem," Obama said ...

WASHINGTON -- In a one-two punch from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue on Thursday, lawmakers introduced a sweeping revision to military sexual-assault law and the president summoned his uniformed service chiefs. The politically popular bill and ...

WASHINGTON -- Doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals were among 89 people recently arrested in nine cities, accused of scheming to defraud the Medicare program of nearly $223 million in false billings, the Obama administration ...

LOS ANGELES -- The jobs of the nation's citizen-soldiers are supposed to be safe while they are serving their country: Federal law does not allow employers to penalize service members because of their military duties.

Yet every year, thousands of...